The paper deals with the hundred-year-old history of teaching rhetorical figures in Slovenia. The focus of attention will be the first definitions of rhetorical figures in Slovene (Hrovat), the first presentations of them in Slovene (Debevec) and the way they have been taught at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana (Ocvirk, Koren). The author also analyses how rhetorical figures are dealt with in the text books by Silva Trdina (Besedna umetnost, 1961) and Matjaž Kmecl (Mala literarna teorija, 1983). The paper concludes with a presentation of the text book Retorične figure (2006) co-authored by Tone Smolej and Matej Hriberšek.
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